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Superintendent to recommend multiple consolidations and boundary changes after facilities review
Summary
Staff told the board the superintendent will recommend consolidating Anchor Academy into Mayport and closing Long Branch Elementary, assigning its boundary to RL Brown while preserving a magnet; staff also previewed Johnny Ford and high-school boundary proposals and presented estimated operational savings from prior closures.
Corey Wright, presenting the district’s long-range facilities work, said the recommendations the superintendent will bring to the board in December include consolidating Anchor Academy into Mayport for implementation in 2026–27 and closing Long Branch Elementary while assigning its attendance boundary to the remodeled R. L. Brown facility and preserving a gifted-and-talented magnet program under the name Long Branch Academy at R. L. Brown. Wright said Anchor Academy has been chronically underenrolled for more than five years and that consolidating into Mayport would maintain existing programs without capital upgrades.
Wright grounded the proposals in the district’s ACE (Academic Community Excellence) process and cited policy 8.53 (consolidation impact review) and related high-school boundary policy language used to guide…
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